2025

For decades, quantum mechanics assumed that all observable particles fall into two categories: fermions  and bosons. Now, this dichotomous view of particles is being questioned. Researchers from MPQ and Rice University have investigated the intricacies of particle exchange statistics and shown that a third category — paraparticles — can exist under specific physical conditions, obeying exotic "parastatistics". more

A team of researchers at MPQ has found first signs of stripe formation in a cold-atom Fermi Hubbard model. Using a quantum gas microscope and a special mixed-dimensional geometry, they were able to observe special properties associated with superconductivity - a huge advance in the fundamental understanding of this phase of matter and in the academic application of quantum simulators. more